Casa Ejemplo Nicaraguan Robusto

Why the robusto endures

The robusto is the most-smoked format in the world for a practical reason: it is thick enough to burn cool and short enough to finish in under an hour. You get the full arc of a cigar — the bright opening, the settled middle, the concentrated last third — without committing an evening to it.

Nicaraguan character

Nicaraguan leaf grows in volcanic soil and carries more pepper and body than Dominican or Honduran tobacco. In a robusto, where the ring gauge concentrates flavour, that comes through as a peppery opening that settles into earth and wood as the cigar warms.

Medium-full, in practice

Strong enough to need food beforehand, not so strong that it flattens the palate. It works after dinner or with black coffee mid-afternoon. On an empty stomach, medium-full Nicaraguan tobacco will find you out.

Getting the best from it

Cut just above the cap line with a sharp cutter, toast the foot with a torch until the edge glows evenly, then draw gently. Smoke slowly — roughly a puff a minute. Pushing a robusto makes it hot and bitter faster than any other format, because there is less barrel to absorb the heat.

Storage in this climate

Cigars need 65 to 70% humidity; UAE air conditioning runs near 30%. Anything you are not smoking this week belongs in a humidor. A dried cigar burns fast and sharp and cannot be brought back.

If this is too strong

The Churchill Connecticut is the mildest cigar we stock, and the Dominican corona sits between the two.